Social plan for the employees of Tamedia Editorial Services

The social plan will allow all those affected to mitigate the consequences of the job losses as much as possible and help them to reorient themselves professionally, the media company announced on Monday evening. The plan will also apply to employees of the Basel Newspaper which are affected by the integration of the publishing house and Corporate Services into the Tamedia newspaper network.

Tamedia regrets that the affected employees of Le Matin and Tamedia Editorial Services in French-speaking Switzerland have rejected this redundancy plan, which includes the same support measures as in German-speaking Switzerland.

Arbitration procedure for a quick offer

As announced last week, Tamedia is striving to find a quick solution for the people affected. The company is therefore initiating arbitration proceedings within the framework of the collective labor agreement in order to "be able to offer this social plan as quickly as possible", as stated in the press release. Around 40 employees made redundant from the print edition of the western Swiss daily newspaper, which was discontinued in the summer Le Matin protested outside the Tamedia publishing house in Lausanne in mid-November. They demanded an "acceptable" social plan.

Tamedia is of the opinion that the proposed social plan is generous and corresponds to the customs of the industry and the realities of the labor market. The offer is even better than the offers made by other Swiss publishers in recent years, Tamedia emphasized once again. (SDA)